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passport definition

pass·port (pas′pôrt′)

noun

  1. a government document issued to a citizen for travel abroad, subject to visa requirements, certifying identity and citizenship: it entitles the bearer to the protection of his or her own country and that of the countries visited
  2. safe-conduct (senses & )
  3. anything that enables a person to be accepted, admitted, etc.

Etymology: Fr passeport, safe-conduct, orig., permission to leave or enter a port < passer, pass + port, port

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passport Synonyms

passport

n.

identification, pass, license, permit, safe-conduct, visa, travel permit, authorization, warrant, papers, credentials; see also identification 2.


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passport Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • forge: It assumes that whilst people forge passports they would be unable or unwilling to forge Identity cards.

Adjective modifier

  • machine-readable: Any adult traveling will also need to have a machine-readable passport.

Modifies a noun

  • holder: Allowing certain United Kingdom passport holders to settle in the United Kingdom 10.

Noun used with modifier

  • ten-year: Passports A full ten-year passport is required for all travel outside the UK, including to other EU countries.
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passport quotes

On arrival at a Syrian port the traveller's passport is sometimes asked for, but an ordinary visiting-card will answer the purpose equally well.

-Baedeker, Karl

I shall have warmonger put on my passport. 182 He would have written sonnets all his life?

-Byron, Robert

Don't be surprised, If I demur, for, be advised, My passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised To toastThe Queen.

-Heaney, SeamusJustin

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